Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. We must get away from the traditional route where the rich will do the business and the poor will depend on private or public charity.


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I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beaut...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the r...
MUHAMMAD ALI
No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white gi...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I shook up the world, I shook up the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI
The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.
MUHAMMAD ALI
To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S....
MUHAMMAD ALI
I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brin...
MUHAMMAD ALI
It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.
MUHAMMAD ALI
The Nation of Islam's main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep...
MUHAMMAD ALI
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have se...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I don't have to be what you want me to be.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I've been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.
MUHAMMAD ALI
My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist.
MUHAMMAD ALI
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep co...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Don't feel sorry for me.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow,...
MUHAMMAD ALI
America is the greatest country in the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when J...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people ...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'm no leader; I'm a little humble follower.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That&#...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
MUHAMMAD ALI
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
MUHAMMAD ALI
It's not bragging if you can back it up.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
God is not a dead equation!
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we ...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile:...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually ...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is divers...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of ...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.
MUHAMMAD HIJAZI
We have people who are based in their emotions and so they're hurt. It doesn't hurt me, a fool doesn...
AGIN MUHAMMAD
Always could get somebody's goat if you just talk about his mama, and that's basically what you have...
AGIN MUHAMMAD
Protesting is really similar to war. If you get the best lick in this time, then you've got to get y...
AGIN MUHAMMAD
I understand the reactions, but it's not for me to reduce myself to that level.
AGIN MUHAMMAD
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friend...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. Bu...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets ...
MUHAMMAD ALI